Elaine J. Morgan is a Republican representing District 34 (Charlestown,
Exeter, Hopkinton, Richmond, West Greenwich) in the Rhode Island
Senate. First elected to the Senate in November 2014, Senator Morgan
currently serves as Deputy Minority Whip.
Sen. Morgan is currently
a member of the Senate Committee on Finance, the Senate Committee
on Special Legislation & Veterans' Affairs, and the Senate Committee on
Commerce. She also served as the Senate Minority Whip from June 2019
through January 2021.
Sen. Morgan previously served three
terms as Hopkinton's first female elected Town Sergeant.
During
her time in the General Assembly, Sen. Morgan has acted to address the
issue of human trafficking. She was the Senate sponsor of a 2015 law
increasing penalties for engaging in sex trafficking of minors. She has
cosponsored legislation to put a line-item veto before voters as a
constitutional amendment, as well as a bill that would require
businesses in Rhode Island with three or more employees to participate
in the federal E-Verify program.
Sen. Morgan created a licensing
program and set minimum standards for pump installers and commercial and
residential water filtration/treatment system contractors. She has
introduced legislation to eliminate all state income tax on social
security income and includes protecting and strengthening the rights of
parents and students in her legislative priorities.
In 2015, Sen.
Morgan was appointed to the Rhode Island Commission on Women & Girls.
She was named a “Friend of Small Business" for the 2015-16 legislative
session by the NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business). She
has been awarded as the top-rated Senator for protecting and preserving
individual and constitutional freedom and liberties by CPAC and The RI
Center for Freedom and Prosperity from 2014 - 2022.
Sen. Morgan
was the 2019 winner of the Middendorf Pillar of Freedom Award and
received a Conservative Achievement Award in 2020 from The American
Conservative Union Foundation.
A lifelong Rhode Islander, Sen.
Morgan is an entrepreneur and small business owner of Ashaway Dry
Cleaning. She is a member of Our Lady of Victory Church in Ashaway and a
former foster parent.
She and her late husband, Edward, have two
children and two grandchildren.